My latest pet project, homemade soy sauce, has been ridiculously delayed. You cannot make the Japanese/Chinese style of ‘Shoyu’ without a specific type of mold: Aspergillus Oryzae. Preferably the mold will have been nurtured along on soy beans (vice rice).
I ordered some from a source in Austria. Shipping seemed a little high at 5 euro’s , but what the hell–I’d get what I wanted/needed. Had I known that when they said ‘shipping’ they meant that tit would be on an actual ship, I might have gone a different way. Here is the latest tracking information on my order.
Yep, that’s a little vague to me. I quizzed the folk I had purchased from to see if they knew of an English language site to track from. I got this:
That’s just friggin great. Somewhere in the North Atlantic a slow boat has my tiny little package. I’m guessing that the odds of me actually getting what I ordered, in a form/condition I need it to be, are pretty slim.
This recipe had better be legit, because the wait time, once fermentation begins, is 6-14 months. Guess I should have ordered ‘merican’.